Documents collection, 1519-1979.
Title:
Documents collection, 1519-1979.
An artificial collection created by the DRT Library that gathers documents in a multitude of forms, the Documents Collection provides a sampling of government, business and personal activities in Mexico and Texas, from the earliest period of New World settlement through the twentieth century. Material from Mexico includes decrees, letters, broadsides, and other items issued by Kings of Spain, Mexican Viceroys, and prominent government and church officials. The bulk of the collection documents Texas, beginning with its earliest settlement, but concentrating on the period of Anglo-American colonization through the Civil War. Encountered most frequently are documents related to transactions of various types, such as land grants and sales, slave transactions, legal actions and monetary exchanges. Political and military events are represented, and letters reflect government, business, personal and social life. Also part of the collection is a small number of literary manuscripts such as memoirs, biographies, genealogies, histories, fiction and poetry, most unpublished. Some of the individual names represented in the collection are Stephen F. Austin, Thomas Barnett, Baron de Bastrop, David G. Burnet, Juan Bautista de las Casas, Agustín Fischer, José Antonio de la Garza, Thomas Gay, José Manuel Granados, Archibald Hotchkiss, Sam Houston, Francis W. Johnson, Benito Juárez, John W. Kenney, Luke Lesassier, John H. Money, Ramón Músquiz, José Antonio Navarro, Alonso Nuñez de Haro y Peralta, Juan Ruíz de Apodaca, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Juan Nepomuceno Seguín, Henry Smith, James Harper Starr, William Barret Travis, Francisco Javier de Venegas, Juan Martín de Veramendi, and Samuel May Williams.
ArchivalResource:
14 document boxes 6 flat boxes 4 oversize boxes 5 oversize items 23 bound volumes
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